Atlanta Gold Expects Significant Benefits Through Use of Pilot Processing Plant

Atlanta Gold (TSXV:ATG) announced its expectations for significant economic and environmental benefits through the use of a pilot processing method being used by Knife River Corporation.

As quoted in the press release:

Pit run material is crushed to a predetermined size and the finely crushed product is fed through a large efficient sluice box that uses water to float lighter rock to separate the gold, silver and heavy metals including gold bearing arsenic from the crushed material without using chemicals and with recycled water, causing no discharge. The gold particles (free gold) and the sulphide concentrates then require further processing to become a gold concentrate plus a sulphide concentrate containing a gold sulphide mix. The free gold will be sent to a refinery and the sulphide concentrate will be sent to autoclaves to recover the additional gold and silver tied-up in the sulphides. The initial crushing and sluicing is inexpensive enough to allow the Company to process even low-grade material through the recovery plant.

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